Boreta Singleton News Today

Toni Morrison's fiction conveyed much of the pain, sacrifice and trauma that exemplifies so much of the African-American experience—which is why it makes some white readers uncomfortable.

Boreta Singleton is the director of faculty formation at St. Peter’s Prep High School in Jersey City, N.J. She is a candidate for the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas and a member of St. Francis Xavier Parish in Manhattan.

The reader can see God in all areas of Toni Morrison’s characters’ circumstances—in the “magic,” in the pain and suffering, and in the call to healing and wholeness that leads to life.